Louis Charles LATHAM

(1840-1895)

LATHAM, Louis Charles, a
Representative from North Carolina; born in Plymouth, Washington
County, N.C., September 11, 1840; attended private schools, and was
graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in
1859; later attended the Harvard Law School; entered the
Confederate Army in 1861; was commissioned captain and afterward
major of the First Regiment of North Carolina State troops, and
served throughout the Civil War; immediately after the war resumed
the study of law; was admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced
practice in Plymouth, N.C.; member of the State house of commons in
1864; served in the State senate in 1870; elected as a Democrat to
the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882; elected to the
Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress;
resumed the practice of law in Greenville, N.C.; died at Johns
Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, Md., October 16, 1895;
interment in the City Cemetery, Greenville, N.C.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present